Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in the Small American City, opens at the Center for Architecture in NYC on Oct 2nd. 

The exhibition provides a snapshot into our ongoing investigation into the Fringe City, defined as an independently situated, small city that has been severely impacted by urban renewal. The exhibit takes a deep dive into four cities to understand local impact and hear from the organizations working today to address the legacies of this era of rapid, large-scale change.

The Gun Violence Memorial Project opened September 19 at the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

The exhibition features four houses built of 700 glass bricks, each house representing the average number of lives lost due to gun violence every week in America. Families who have lost a loved one due to gun violence contributed remembrance objects, which are placed within a glass brick, displaying the name, year of birth, and year of death of the person being honored.

For more information about the project, visit www.gunviolencememorialproject.org.

The Butaro Oncology Support Centre celebrated its inauguration on August 14, 2019. 

The Butaro Oncology Support Centre joins the Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence, providing a home for patients and their families, a dining facility, and a psychosocial center for mental health counseling and support. 

We need memorials that embrace truth.

The Equal Justice Initiative created a national lynching memorial as a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.

“I believe we need to talk about the shame of slavery. We need to talk about the shadows that still haunt us.”
 —Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of EJI 

Read more about the project.

October 12, 2018 marks the opening day of the new Ruhehe Primary School.

Through the partnership between MASS, M² Foundation and the District of Musanze, Ruhehe Primary School provided the African Design Centre fellows the opportunity to test the first replication of the Mubuga model for education design in the district.

The National Design Awards were conceived by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to honor lasting achievement in American design. 

Read a statement from the MASS team.